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Qt 5.1 To Feature Improved Support For Wayland

Phoronix: Qt 5.1 To Feature Improved Support For Wayland

A number of improvements to QtWayland have been merged this month, primarily around the Client Side Decorations support and other functionality needed for proper support of this likely X11 Server successor...

So Wayland not only enforces inconsistency by requiring that every application draws its title bar itself, Wayland also does not support minimizing of windows.
I begin to see the benefits of this awesome piece of technology… not!

Remember people Wayland is still somewhat up and coming. (Work in progress)
Wayland does not enforce inconsistency to make every app draw it's own titlebar.
The majority of apps uses a toolkit that draws the title bars creating a lot of consistency.

So Wayland not only enforces inconsistency by requiring that every application draws its title bar itself, Wayland also does not support minimizing of windows.
I begin to see the benefits of this awesome piece of technology… not!

I don't think the devs are rushing to implement stuff that are needed for a complete desktop but it will happen eventually. Not sure on the timeframe though.

So Wayland not only enforces inconsistency by requiring that every application draws its title bar itself, Wayland also does not support minimizing of windows.
I begin to see the benefits of this awesome piece of technology… not!

Relax. The protocol for minimize support hasn't been merged yet, but patches for it do exist, which extends the Wayland protocol, and implants the ability in Weston.
Remember what Kristian said about Wayland 1.0. Wayland 1.0 wasn't a release that meant that Wayland is complete for the desktop, but it was a release that meant that the core protocol from that point forward is stable, and the Wayland developers will no longer break existing APIs.

Relax. The protocol for minimize support hasn't been merged yet, but patches for it do exist, which extends the Wayland protocol, and implants the ability in Weston.
Remember what Kristian said about Wayland 1.0. Wayland 1.0 wasn't a release that meant that Wayland is complete for the desktop, but it was a release that meant that the core protocol from that point forward is stable, and the Wayland developers will no longer break existing APIs.

Since you probably follow wayland more than most i have a question. What is still missing for desktop use. There was a post by Pekka sometime ago but i believe things have moved forward since that.